Day: February 20, 2018

The Marvel movie is set for release on April 27 in the UK, with the sequel due the following year. Both have wrapped, but will we get another surprise comeback in the mix? Natalie Portman was last seen as Jane Foster in Thor and its sequel, but had exited the franchise by Thor: Ragnarok, which came out in October last year. So will she come back, or is Jane firmly stuck in the past? The Oscar winner has insisted that there are officially no plans for her to reappear in…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has directed his attorney general to propose regulations that would ban bump stocks and similar devices “that turn legal weapons into machine guns,” the president announced Tuesday. Trump, speaking at the start of a Medal of Valor ceremony at the White House, said he expected the “critical” new regulations to be finalized soon. A Justice Department review of bump stock regulations started in December, Trump said, after America’s deadliest mass shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead. The gunman in that incident used…

President Trump directed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to craft regulations banning bump stocks “very soon,” while the White House says it is keeping all options open on gun control. In the first daily briefing since a Florida school shooting left 17 people dead, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said that the Trump Administration has not put together a concrete plan. “Unfortunately, when horrific tragedies like this happen, everybody wants a quick and a simple answer,” she said Tuesday afternoon. “But there isn’t one.” Still, Sanders did offer a few policy…

North Korea’s most high-profile female official is believed to have confirmed the news while in South Korea. Kim Yo-Jong told South Korean officials she was expecting a child after she experienced “discomfort” during the trip south. She is believed to have already given birth once in 2015 although no photos of the child – Kim Jong-un’s nephew or niece – has ever been shared. Kim Yo Jong visited South Korea from February 9 to 11 on behalf of her brother. She attended the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, where…

Physicists at MIT and Harvard University may have just invented a whole new type of light by forcing groups of photons to bound together to form a completely new kind of photonic matter. More Remember the whole bit in Ghostbuster about “ crossing the streams” when two or more proton streams converge to form a new kind of beam? Well, it turns out that a not dissimilar effect can be created when it comes to crossing over beams of light under certain conditions. OK, so it won’t destroy Gozer, but…

The Roadster will hit several key milestones on its unprecedented journey of the solar system after it slingshots away from Earth towards Mars later this year. Not only is it the first car in space, but the Roadster will be the first to pass Mars, to pass the asteroid belt and to pass the sun. Elon Musks’s cherry-red electric car is currently flying hundreds of thousands of miles away from Earth and will soon depart from the planet’s orbit. You can now track Starman’s incredible journey across the stars thanks…

Our brains are wrinkled like walnuts by the time we are born. Babies born without these wrinkles — called smooth brain syndrome — suffer from severe developmental deficiencies and their life expectancy is markedly reduced. Now researchers have developed a method for growing tiny ‘brains on chips’ from human cells that enabled them to track the physical and biological mechanisms underlying the wrinkling process.

A lawyer who is the son-in-law of a Ukranian-Russian oligarch named in the controversial Donald Trump dossier pleaded guilty on Tuesday to lying to investigators in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. It is not clear, however, if Alex van der Zwaan, 33, has signed a cooperation deal with Mueller. His attorney said in federal court in Washington that there is “some possibility” he would not face a long sentence — but because he doesn’t have a criminal record, he might only get a few months even without a deal.…

Understanding nature and its processes has greatly benefitted from open data. Open remotely sensed data make hard-to-reach wilderness areas more accessible — at least from above. These advances provide new opportunities for Earth system research.

Beluga whales that spend summers feeding in the Arctic are diving deeper and longer to find food than in earlier years, when sea ice covered more of the ocean for longer periods, according to a new analysis.